2024 Grammy Awards

She maybe could have acknowledged Celine, up and standing and looking like a queen.

 

I wonder if Celine didn’t want to be mobbed and hugged due to her condition.

 

Yep. But this post prompted me to listen to Goodnight Saigon again tonight. So that was good.

 

As a comeback song, and considering Joel's history with not writing, I think that context raises the song. Sure, it's on the nose. Plainly. But all of his stuff, including his best stuff, is. It's a proper Billy Joel song. What more could fans have ever asked for?

 

That it be good? *



*I acknowledge that I’m just being a dick here. I can’t stand Billy Joel.

 

My 19-year-old daughter sitting next to me said the same thing.

 

I got teary-eyed during Fast Car and Joni Mitchell’s performance. Billy Joel closed the show with I May Be Crazy, and now that’s stuck in my head.

 

That speech came right after the song by Travis Scott, who was performing in Houston when 10 fans died after being crushed in a stage rush. Scott kept performing as bodies were being carried out.

 

Geez, I hope it's not that. He is touring and making plans for more touring and doing pressers and what not. He certainly looks his age, but he seems to be OK, all things considered. I think the song was a plaintive acknowledgment he might have had more to give after River of Dreams and maybe he could have done more the last three decades in addition to singing songs that still make people very happy.

 

Can't disagree with a word of that. Seemed more than fine. Question is, does this mean it will get attached to another compilation album, or does he have an album – or even an EP's worth of tracks – ready to go?

 

Sony/CBS/Columbia/whatever has been milking the catalogue for 30 years, so I'm sure they'd love to tack on the new song to a different thematic collection. He actually has three songs now that don't have an album home w/"All My Life" & "Christmas In Fallujah" from the first decade of the '00s. Maybe put these three songs on to a compilation made up mostly of deep cuts? "No Man's Land" deserves a compilation home.

 

"Blonde Over Blue" off the same album while you're at it.
Also: "Summer, Highland Falls," "Vienna," "She's Right On Time," and "Sometimes A Fantasy" for starters.